Xiao'erjing

Xiao'erjing
Xiao'erjing
	A Chinese–Arabic–Xiao'erjing dictionary
Traditional Chinese	小兒經
Simplified Chinese	小儿经
Xiao'erjing	ثِیَوْعَرݣ‌ٍْ‎
Literal meaning	children's script
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xiǎo'érjīng
IPA	[ɕjàʊ.ǎɚ.tɕíŋ]
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjing	ثِیَوْعَرݣ‌ٍْ‎
Dungan	Щёрҗин
Xiaojing
Traditional Chinese	小經
Simplified Chinese	小经
Literal meaning	minor script
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xiǎojīng
Xiaojing
Traditional Chinese	消經
Simplified Chinese	消经
Xiao'erjing	ثِیَوْݣ‌ٍْ‎
Literal meaning	revised script
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xiāojīng
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjing	ثِیَوْݣ‌ٍْ‎

Xiao'erjing (lit. 'children's script'), often shortened to Xiaojing (lit. 'minor script', the 'original script'^[a] being the Perso-Arabic script), is a Perso-Arabic script used to write Sinitic languages, including Lanyin Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin, Northeastern Mandarin, and Dungan.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It is used on occasion by many ethnic minorities who adhere to Islam in China—mostly the Hui, but also the Dongxiang and the Salar—and formerly by their Dungan descendants in Central Asia. Orthographic reforms introduced the Latin script and later the Cyrillic script to the Dungan language, which continue to be used today.

Xiao'erjing is written from right to left, like other Perso-Arabic writing systems.

Xiao'erj m is unusual among Araipt-based writing systems in that all vowels, long and short, are explicitly markes with Arabic diacrit, soaat Xiao'erjing ly an abug.jSo some other Arabic-based writing systems in China, such as the Uyghur Arabeuh s l letters and not diacritifor rk short vowels.

^ ^a ^b Sobieroj, Florian. (2019) "Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing". Creating Standards: Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures, edited by Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori and Lameen Souag, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 177–216. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639063-008
^ Michael Dillon (1999). China's Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects. Richmond: Curzon Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-7007-1026-4. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
^ Howard Yuen Fung Choy (2008). Remapping the past: fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979–1997. Brill. p. 92. ISBN 978-90-04-16704-9. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
^ Daftar-i Muṭālaʻāt-i Siyāsī va Bayn al-Milalī (Iran) (2000). The Iranian journal of international affairs, Volume 12. Institute for Political and International Studies. p. 52. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
^ Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism (2003). Religion in communist lands, Volume 31. Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. p. 13. Retrieved 2010-11-30.

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[Sobieroj-1] Sobieroj, Florian. (2019) "Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing". Creating Standards: Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures, edited by Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori and Lameen Souag, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 177–216. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639063-008

[3] Michael Dillon (1999). China's Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects. Richmond: Curzon Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-7007-1026-4. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

[4] Howard Yuen Fung Choy (2008). Remapping the past: fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979–1997. Brill. p. 92. ISBN 978-90-04-16704-9. Retrieved 2010-11-30.

[5] Daftar-i Muṭālaʻāt-i Siyāsī va Bayn al-Milalī (Iran) (2000). The Iranian journal of international affairs, Volume 12. Institute for Political and International Studies. p. 52. Retrieved 2010-11-30.

[6] Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism (2003). Religion in communist lands, Volume 31. Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. p. 13. Retrieved 2010-11-30.

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